Paramedic stress: 'We're micro-managed by people checking response times'

A man who has been a paramedic for 20 years describes the stresses that led to him taking two months’ sick leave in 2015Peter (not his real name) has been a paramedic with an NHS regional ambulance service in the south of England for almost 20 years. He took two months’ sick leave because of stress in 2015.I once turned up at a house where a woman and her daughter were crying hysterically because her husband – a man in his 30s – had passed away from a heart attack. And th